May 2019 – Dan Langille's Other Diary

hacking on iocage

Today is the day after BSDCan 2019. The power cables and extension cords from the hacking lounge have been laid to rest in an Ottawa basement until next year. Sitting in my parents garden, I noticed some Nagios cert warnings: I logged into my certificates server (the website from which all my hosts download their certs). The cert looked OK: [dan@webs01:/usr/local/www/certs.unixathome.org/www/certs/x8dtu.unixathome.org] $ ls -l total 14 -rw-r–r– 1 rsyncer rsyncer 1647 May 11 […]

May 12 2019

pkg: http://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/vuln.xml.bz2: No address record

Leave a Comment / FreeBSD, py-iocage / By Dan Langille / May 12, 2019

I’ve been making use of some FreeBSD-provided scripts within my Nagios monitoring. Recently, I started seeing a problem after some jail maintenance. This post is about that problem and the fix. Full disclosure: the issue was not what I thought it was and I did not solve it. I’m using: FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE-p9 The scripts are: 405.pkg-base-audit 410.pkg-audit Where are they from? $ pkg which /usr/local/etc/periodic/security/405.pkg-base-audit /usr/local/etc/periodic/security/405.pkg-base-audit was installed by package base-audit-0.3 You don’t

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